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- 20th Anniversary Editorial Team Picks
- Adam Lowenstein and Max Bledstein on “Horror Film and Otherness” (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Ben Rubin and Geneveive Newman on Horror Archives at the University of Pittsburgh
- Cityscapes, Trance States and Wayfaring Women
- A Conversation between Janice Loreck and Aimee Traficante on ‘Provocation in Women’s Filmmaking’
- Daniel Smith-Rowsey interviews Timothy Shary, Author of “Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth” (Wallflower Press, 2023)
- Ecomaterialist Theory – A Roundtable
- Editor’s Picks
- Eraserhead (BFI Film Classics)
- “Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors” by Ian Penman
- Featured Book Reviews
- Flash Frights, HTML Horrors: Horror Gimmick Websites and the Shadow of Blair Witch
- Serial Intervals from the Perspective of “Cultural Series”
- Sofia Coppola: Forever Young
- Something in the Midsommar Air
- Towards Other Forms of Queer Visibility
- Walkman: Space-Time Machine?
- Special Issues
- “Feminist Film/Media Now” Special Issue 22.1 (Spring 2024)
- “Queer/Trans Media Now” Special Issue 21.2 (Summer 2023)
- “Cinematic Mountains” Special Issue 21.1 (Spring 2023)
- “Renewing the Cine-genre: Pasts and Futures” Special Issue 20.1 (Spring 2022)
- “Kathryn Bigelow: A Visionary Director” Special Issue 19.3 (Fall 2021)
- “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: A Critical Exploration of ‘Joker’” Special Issue 19.1 (Spring 2021)
- “Radical Romantic Comedy” Special Issue 18.1 (Spring 2020)
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